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Sources consulted for the biography of:Thomas West twelfth baron De La Warr (1576–1618)
Biographical Information
- Biography in Alexander Brown, "Sir Thomas West, Third Lord De La Warr," Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries 9 (1883): 1830
- Biography in Brown, ed., The Genesis of the United States . . . (1897), 2:10481049 (with variant birth date of July 9, 1577)
- birth year derived from Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 15001714 . . . (18911892), 4:103 (age fifteen on March 9, 1592)
- marriage date from parish register of Saint Dunstan's in the West, London, in Evelyn Philip Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana; or the Annals of the Shirley Family . . . , 2d ed., rev. (1873), 258
- death date of July 7, 1618, in Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., Records of the Virginia Company of London (19061935), 3:419420
- variant death date of June 7, 1618 in Cole's Escheats, Thomas Cole Collections, vol. 5, Harley 760, p. 421, British Library, London, England
- burial place in Peter Wilson Coldham, ed., "The Voyage of the Neptune to Virginia, 16181619, and the Disposition of Its Cargo," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 87 (1979): 32
Primary Sources
- copies of commission and instructions in Papers Relating to the Foundation of Virginia, Add MS 21993, fols. 183189, British Library, London, England
- copies of commission and instructions in Ashmolean MSS 1147, fols. 191206, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- numerous references in Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., Records of the Virginia Company of London (19061935), including instructions on 3:2429
- De La Warr et al. to company, July 7, 1610, Relation of a Voyage to Virginia, Harleian MSS 7009, fols. 5861, British Library, London, England
- De La Warr to earl of Salisbury, n.d., received September 1610, Public Record Office, Colonial Office Papers 1/1, fol. 85a, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- De La Warr to earl of Salisbury, June 22, 1611, Public Record Office, State Paper Office 14/64 no. 53, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- John Pory to Sir Dudley Carleton, October 25, 1618, Public Record Office, State Paper Office 14/103/46 (quotation), National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- Mark Nicholls, ed., "George Percy's 'Trewe Relacyon': A Primary Source for the Jamestown Settlement," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 113 (2005): 251257
Secondary Sources
- J. Frederick Fausz, "An 'Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides': England's First Indian War, 16091614," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 98 (1990): 356
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